Sentence examples for clerical garb from inspiring English sources

The witness even turned up in court wearing clerical garb.

The priests were the ones in black clerical garb.

The wearing of clerical garb outside places of worship was forbidden in 1934.

No central authority grants theological students the right to don, or doff, clerical garb.

For much of the 20th century, the Catholic Church in places was essentially organized crime in clerical garb.

McCarrick is no longer allowed to wear clerical garb or to perform priestly sacraments such as Mass.

Such images signify the distance between the private and public spaces, grown to such an extent that almost every public gesture implies a political declaration: women's clothing, turbaned men in their clerical garbs, unmarried men and women consorting in public, all these become political statements rather than indications of private lifestyles.

The crowds of pedestrians included dozens of dark-eyed men in their striking black garb and clerical collars.

Collectively, the day-to-day duds of Catholic priests, as well as Anglican and Episcopal priests and Lutheran ministers, are known as "clericals". Other faiths wear ceremonial garb during services, but those four denominations, say clerical haberdashers, make up the great majority of their everyday customers.

They want to make the church visible, so they wear clerical collars or other religious garb, like the albs, or white robes, that lay Christians may also wear.

She is dressed in ministerial garb, minus the clerical collar, because MacMaster has lived many lives and being a published author is only one.